Applied Math Colloquium

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Fall 2006

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 2-105. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 4-174 (Math Majors Lounge).

Fall 2006 Organizers: Alan Edelman and Steven G. Johnson

Date Speaker / Abstract
Sept. 11

Oscar Chinellato (ETHZ - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)

Computing Eigenvalues of Electromagnetic Resonator Cabities

Sept. 14 4:30 PM
Walker Memorial
142 Memorial Drive
(Building 50, Room 140)

Astronaut Stephanie Wilson (NASA)

Discuss recent mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery, STS-121

Sept. 25 4:00 PM
(talk held early on Student Holiday)

Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Swarming and Aggregation Phenomena

Oct. 2

NO COLLOQUIUM due to religious holiday (not an MIT Holiday)

Oct. 9

Columbus Day - HOLIDAY

Oct. 16

Olga Holtz (University of California, Berkeley)

Fast and Stable Matrix Multiplication

Oct. 23

NO COLLOQUIUM

Oct. 30

Henry Cohn (Microsoft)

Universally Optimal Distribution of Points on Spheres and in Space

Nov. 6

Vladimir Mandelshtam (University of California at Irvine)

Superresolution Methods of Spectral Analysis of Multidimentional Time Signals

Nov. 13

Robin Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Pfaffian Orientations of Graphs

Nov. 20

Robert Calderbank (Princeton University)

Quantum Computing and Instantaneous Radar Polarimetry

Nov. 27

NO COLLOQUIUM

Dec. 4

Charles Van Loan (Cornell University)

Some Kronecker Product Optimization Problems

Dec. 11

L. Nick Trefethen (Oxford University)

Speeding up Numerical Computations via Conformal Maps

Dec. 18

Jesus DeLoera (University of Calfornia, Davis)

Generating Function Algorithms and Software for Integer Optimization